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any globohomo big tech company uses stuff like this. google calendar uses flat fat brown people illustrations too.

Dysnomia said:
I miss the cute little doggo that would retrieve files. Even that stupid paper clip was better than this. A child could make this art in Paint 3D.
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the dog was my favorite. it had a floppy disk where it would save your files and a doghouse. what a different time.
 
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One well known example of a company that completely fucked themselves over with this new style of branding was Tropicana.

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They took the package on the left and turned it into the package on the right. The result of that was that everyone thought it was a generic store brand because of the boring packaging and ignored it, and sales plummeted. It's become a textbook example of rebranding failure.
 
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Un Platano said:
One well known example of a company that completely fucked themselves over with this new style of branding was Tropicana.

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They took the package on the left and turned it into the package on the right. The result of that was that everyone thought it was a generic store brand because of the boring packaging and ignored it, and sales plummeted. It's become a textbook example of rebranding failure.
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literally the least necessary rebranding any company could make

people want to see what flavor of juice they want to drink, not have the flavor be represented by some gentrified hipster rebrand
 
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Un Platano said:
One well known example of a company that completely fucked themselves over with this new style of branding was Tropicana.

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They took the package on the left and turned it into the package on the right. The result of that was that everyone thought it was a generic store brand because of the boring packaging and ignored it, and sales plummeted. It's become a textbook example of rebranding failure.
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It looks like MLM garbage. There was nothing wrong with the original packaging.
 
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Un Platano said:
They took the package on the left and turned it into the package on the right. The result of that was that everyone thought it was a generic store brand because of the boring packaging and ignored it, and sales plummeted. It's become a textbook example of rebranding failure.
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So hipster, even removing the word "juice" from their orange juice container wow
 
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You know what? Let's do a breakdown of this image:
This is an image of a man with a moon for a head punching a trans rights activist, likely a trans woman. But it's more than that.
The puncher is Mac Tonight, a character created in the late 80s to promote McDonalds stuff. Later in 2005 he became a YTMND with rap lyrics being paired over him, then from there a resurgence in usage by the "alt-right", to the point that the anti-defamation league has a fucking page dedicated to him as a hate symbol.
The trans woman he is punching is generic, but in addition to her trans flag a tiny speck of flesh pokes out between her legs, a reminder of how masculinity still shows through along with the phrase "this is my girldick", an oxymoron to most people on the planet.
The pose the two are in is lifted from a memetic screenshot from The Last of Us 2, a game in a series once hailed as lovely by a large sum of gamers but now tainted by terrible writing and forced politics thanks to the sequel. The original assailant, Abby, was theorized to be a transwoman by the public but the writers cucked out and made it ambigious for woke points (and to backtrack in case he did wrong think and he did lol). She is seen as a roided up hulk punching a dainty character, an encapsulation of what her presence and Druckman's politics did to the franchise and a showcase of how unwomanly she is. The artist likely included it because it was a funny as hell pose and a funny meme rather than being that deep.
The style of the piece is a disilation of previous bland corporate styles, a combination of sleek simple minimalism with friendly eyecatching calarts type shapes and people. Its more complex than stick figures without being offensive, but easy enough to draw that amy chump can do it for $4.50 and a bag of expired potato chips so you don't have to pay for a graphic identity from talented people. Generally, due to its inoffensive nature and the frontal politics of the corporations they sponsor, it is regarded as a leftist social justice style, and yet it is even cold to SJWs themselves.

All this is merged together in one image is nearly incomphrensible to people outside certain internet bubbles and that is fucking fascinating. Not only that: the image is near indistinguishable from an actual image put out by corporations who use this flat style, and more can easily be shat out en mass and the normie could mistake it for an actual piece put out by said corporations. Almost as if there was a reason that you pay artist to create an iconic and hard to reproduce identity for your product, huh.

While it really ain't that fucking deep bro, this image is fucking insane when you think about how much background knowledge you need to know to understand the full emotional impact of it on your brain (if any - this is just a dumb shitpost after all). This is art, goddamn.
 
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You know what? Let's do a breakdown of this image:
This is an image of a man with a moon for a head punching a trans rights activist, likely a trans woman. But it's more than that.
The puncher is Mac Tonight, a character created in the late 80s to promote McDonalds stuff. Later in 2005 he became a YTMND with rap lyrics being paired over him, then from there a resurgence in usage by the "alt-right", to the point that the anti-defamation league has a fucking page dedicated to him as a hate symbol.
The trans woman he is punching is generic, but in addition to her trans flag a tiny speck of flesh pokes out between her legs, a reminder of how masculinity still shows through along with the phrase "this is my girldick", an oxymoron to most people on the planet.
The pose the two are in is lifted from a memetic screenshot from The Last of Us 2, a game in a series once hailed as lovely by a large sum of gamers but now tainted by terrible writing and forced politics thanks to the sequel. The original assailant, Abby, was theorized to be a transwoman by the public but the writers cucked out and made it ambigious for woke points (and to backtrack in case he did wrong think and he did lol). She is seen as a roided up hulk punching a dainty character, an encapsulation of what her presence and Druckman's politics did to the franchise and a showcase of how unwomanly she is. The artist likely included it because it was a funny as hell pose and a funny meme rather than being that deep.
The style of the piece is a disilation of previous bland corporate styles, a combination of sleek simple minimalism with friendly eyecatching calarts type shapes and people. Its more complex than stick figures without being offensive, but easy enough to draw that amy chump can do it for $4.50 and a bag of expired potato chips so you don't have to pay for a graphic identity from talented people. Generally, due to its inoffensive nature and the frontal politics of the corporations they sponsor, it is regarded as a leftist social justice style, and yet it is even cold to SJWs themselves.

All this is merged together in one image is nearly incomphrensible to people outside certain internet bubbles and that is fucking fascinating. Not only that: the image is near indistinguishable from an actual image put out by corporations who use this flat style, and more can easily be shat out en mass and the normie could mistake it for an actual piece put out by said corporations. Almost as if there was a reason that you pay artist to create an iconic and hard to reproduce identity for your product, huh.

While it really ain't that fucking deep bro, this image is fucking insane when you think about how much background knowledge you need to know to understand the full emotional impact of it on your brain (if any - this is just a dumb shitpost after all). This is art, goddamn.
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These blob humans and the obsession with sans setif font go hand in hand with Google systematically rounding the corners on every single element of the visual design of their products. It's like some demented schizophrenic learned about the sharp edge= unfriendly and round shape=friendly principle, feared they wouldn't be seen as FRIENDLY OMNIPRESENT MEGACORP with gasp sharp edges, and went to town on their design language.
 
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moonman1488 said:
I've been thinking of switching from Brave to Yandex for a while.

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Do black people even know what a Bitcoin is?
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I was about to post the same thing. What a horrendously ugly art style that struggles so hard to be inoffensive that it's actually nightmarish. The black dude gets to have a shirt and a torso, everyone else has legs that split up to their arms.
 
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